How Markets Work
The “No Easy Trades” Principle
The moontower version of the "efficient markets hypothesis"
Kris Abdelmessih
How Markets Work
Why You Don’t Get Paid For Diversifiable Risks
Examples of a counterintuitive aspect of portfolio theory
How Markets Work
Negative Prices Make Sense
How oil tested assumptions that hold most of the time
How Markets Work
Dinosaur Markets
Markets are not democracies
How Markets Work
For Fun, My Career Origin Story
The start of an option career in 2000
How Markets Work
Do Professional Investors Understand Fees?
Non-obvious relationships between volatility and management fees
How Markets Work
Lessons From Susquehanna
Portable lessons from my SIG days
Risk and Edge
How Tails Constrain Investment Allocations
How low probability-events restrict advisable position sizes
How Markets Work
Market Mutations
An example of the biological nature of markets
How Markets Work
Markets Will Permanently Reset Higher (My Sacrifice to the Delta Gods)
When the market going up is the scariest risk
How Markets Work
Investing Is Biology Not Physics
Markets evolve and adapt. Be careful extrapolating from the past.
How Markets Work
Is There Actually An Equity Premium Puzzle?
The distribution of the stock market is different than the distribution of stocks
How Markets Work
How Much of Momentum Is Caused By Randomness?
This is an example of a broad question we should always ask ourselves: "what would the random version of some process look like?"
How Markets Work
How Math Is Sufficient To Explain Small Stock Outperformance
Is it possible that factors overexplain excess performance?
How Markets Work
Your Portfolio Intuition Is Poor
Our instincts about the role of correlation are not well-tuned
How Markets Work
The Antisocial Advantage
When "disagreeable" is an adaptive trait